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.ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT ECE EXETETTINC DEVICES.

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VILLIAM T. SMITH, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT FOR EXHIBITING DEVICES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,706, dated April 13, 1886.

Application filed December 2B, 1885. Serial No. 187,030. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, VILLIAM T. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Electrical Attachments for Exhibiting Apparatus, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My present invention relates to that class of apparatus designed to exhibit a miniature locomotive, steam-engine, steamship, or other object to excite the interest and curiosity of the public. In such apparatus operative mechanism is so employed that usually upon the dropping of a coin into a coin-tube such operative mechanism is set in motion for a predetermined period to cause musical sounds to proceed from a musicbox, and at the same time to set in motion certain movable parts of the model on exhibition-such parts, for instance, as the driving-wheels of a locomotive or the paddle-wheels of a steamboat.

.The object of my present invention is to enable the lighting up with electricity such models, as well as models of public buildings and other objects of general interest, upon the dropping ofa coin into the coin-tube and the consequent setting in motion ofthe operative lnechanism.

To this end my invention consists, primarily, of a coin-tube, an oscillating lever provided with a coin-receiver to receive the coin from said tube, combined with a rotating shaft, a motor for same, a nier connected with the rotating shaft, and a stop-lever in operative connection with the oscillating lever and adapted to engage the iiier, combined with an electric circuit, a circuit-controlling device, and one or more lamps in said circuit, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figurelshows a side elevation of an apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof; and Fig. 3 a sectional detail on line :v x, showing the circuit-controlling device to be referred to.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a part of a box or other suitable receptacle to contain the operating parts, the said box or receptacle being provided at its top with the usual glass case (not shown) to inclose the model (not shown) which is to be exhibited. Mounted on the base B, which is secured to the bottom of the receptacle A, is a cylinder C, as well as a comb, D, both of which are common to the well-known and ordinary musicboxes, the said cylinder being rotated by amotor, (not shown,) such as is usually employed tooperate the cylinder.

Motion is conveyed from the rotating cylinder O to the ilier F through the train of gears 2 3 4 5 G, the last mentioned being a worm secured on the spindle of the flier F. The gear 2 is provided with a cam-groove, 7, to receive a pin, 8, secured to one end of a stop-lever, 9, which engages the flier and acts as a stop, the parts so far described being old and well known.

H is an oscillating lever, pivoted in the bearing h, and provided with an arm or extension, a, (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) engaging the pin 8 of the stop-lever 9 the said oscillating lever H being weighted at 10, and having its other arm provided with a coin-receiver, 11,

' normally held by the weight at the lowerend or exit of a coin-tube, 12, whose upper end projects through the top 13 of the box or receptacle A, to permit a coin to be dropped into said tube, which, passing through said tube, falls into the receiver 11, to overcome the resistance of the weight 10 and cause said oscillating lever II to be moved on its axis, and thus actuate the stop-lever 9 to release the flier F, when the cylinder C will be rotated by its motor to set in motion the musical apparatus.

As the lever H moves on its axis, the coin in the receiver 1 1 strikes against the stop 14, which, in the further downward movement of said lever, eXpels the coin from said coin-receiver, all as more particularly set forth in an application filed by me concurrently herewith, Serial No. 187,031, to which reference may be had for a more particular description.

In connection with the coin-tube, the oscillating lever, and the rotating cylinder or shaft, I employ an electric circuit and a circuit-controlling device, one terminal of which in the present instance is herein shown as a portion, 15, (see Fig. 1,) of the cylinder C, the

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other terminal being the metallic spring 1G, secured at one end to the non-conducting rod 17, attached to the bottom of the receptacle Aby'the screws 18, the circuit being kept normally open by means of an insulator, 19,

` embedded in or iixed to the portion 15 of the cylinder C, the said spring or terminal 16 being kept normally in contact with said insulator. I connect one or more incandescent lamps, 21, with the circuit 22, the said lamps being arranged, as may be desired, in connection with the model to be exhibitedas, for instance, where a locomotive is to be exhibited, one lamp of the circuit 22 may be conducted to the head-light of the locomotive, and one or -more lamps to the fire-box thereof, so' that when the circuit is closed in the manner to be presently set forth the headlight and fire-box will be illuminated. At the same time the musical apparatus, if employed, is set in motion, as well as the movable parts of th'e exhibited'model.

, belt, (not shown,) which is to be passed over a second belt-pulley, (not showin) suitably journaled to the under side of the top of theboX or receptacle A, from which pulley motion may be conveyed by usual and wellknown means employed in apparatus of the kind here set forth to the parts of the eXl1ib ited model which are to be operated.

As soon as the cylinder C is set in motion by the dropping of a coin into the coin-tube 12, and thence into the coin-receiver 1l on the oscillating lever H, as previously set forth, the insulator 19 is carried from beneath the terminal 1G, when said terminal comes in contact with the second terminal 15 to close the circuit, whereupon the lamps will be lighted. The circuit remains closed and the lamps continue to burn until the cylinder C makes a revolution, when the insulator 19 is again brought under the terminal 16 to again openA the circuit, as will be readily understood.

- It will be apparent that should the musical apparatus be dispensed with, and the model to be exhibited should be a miniature publie building or other object of general interest,

wherein parts of the same cannot or are not to be operated, in such a case a shaft operated by a motor will answer every purpose of .the cylinder C.

I do not wish to beV understood as limiting my inventionV to the exact construction of the circuit-controlling device hereinshown, since the same may be changed and modified Vin many Ways without departing from the spirit of myinvention. p

Instead of the terminal 1 5 being a portion ofthe cylinder C, it may consist of a Wheel or disk on the cylinder-shaft, or in operative connection with said shaft, so as-to be rotated when the cylinder is rotated. I I make no claimin this application to the matter described, shown, and claimed in application, Serial No. 187,031, filed by me on the 28th day of December, 1885.

I clainr- 1. The combination, with a cointube, an oscillating lever provided with a coin-receiver to receive the coin from said coin-tube, a rotating shaft orcylinder, a motor for same, av

i'lier in operative connection with said shaft, and a stop engaging the oscillating lever, of an electric circuit provided with one ormore lamps and a circuit-controlling device, to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a coin-tube, an oscillating lever provided with a coin-receiver, a rotating shaft, a motor'for same, a flier in operative connection with said shaft, and a stop-lever engaging the oscillating lever and iiier, ot' an electric circuit having one or more incandescent lamps, and a circuit-breaker, one terminal of which consists of a wheel or disk having an insulator and arranged in operative connection with the rotating shaft, and the other terminal being nominally in contact with the insulator, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLI AM T. SMITH.

Witnesses:v

JAMES H. LANGE, GHAs. F. SCHMEL. 

